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118. OPHELIA'S HALF-SISTER

"So, what? I mean, so maybe she has another kid she didn't tell you about." Sam says when Dean explains that the woman he hooked up with the previous night suddenly has a baby and then a girl around Libby's age.

"Nope, just the one. Emma. But that night, when I was with her, she didn't have any. And I was at her place, man. There was no playpens, no blankets, no rubber ducks." Dean says.

"Right. Like you would have been focused on that kind of thing." Sam says.

"Hey, dude, that's the first thing you notice. Red flags." Dean says.

"You do realize that you have a child, right?" Ophelia asks.

"Well... well, yeah, but it... that's different." Dean says.

"How?" Ophelia asks.

"Well, cause you're mine. You know?" Dean says.

"No." Ophelia shakes her head.

"Look, point is, she had zero children. Then, all of a sudden, boom -- baby." Dean says.

"Did you really have to go and give me a sister?" Ophelia frowns.

"Not intentionally." Dean says.

"Are you gonna keep her?" Ophelia asks.

"No! She's a rapid aging baby. She's probably 18, by now." Dean says.

"Good." Ophelia says. She doesn't say it aloud, but the last thing she needs is another person to take look after or feel the emotions of.

"Yeah, the one you thought talked." Sam says, opening his laptop.

"Oh, it talked. And not baby talk, either." Dean says, giving Sam a beer, having one for himself. "Babies don't go "Hey, mom. Who's that guy?" So, cut to... Lydia's handing this kid who's calling her mommy over to these two women, right? But this is not a baby. No, no, this kid's got to be five. And same name -- Emma."

"You know, George Foreman named all his sons George." Sam says.

"Are you deliberately messing with me?" Dean asks and Sam shrugs. "Dude, I know weird. Okay? There is no non-weird explanation for this. This morning, Emma was a baby. By sunset, she's Hannah Montana. Early years."

Before anybody can reply, Sam's phone rings and he looks at who's calling.

"It's the professor." Sam informs.

"Oh. Good. The professor. Yeah, I'm sure he'll crack this wide open." Dean remarks sarcastically. Sam shushes him as he answers the phone.

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"I know Bobby's got a Grecian encyclopedia of weird in here. I saw it last time I was looking through this stupid... would it kill him to have a system?" Dean asks.

"He has a system. His files are set up like his brain." Sam says. He looks over at Libby who is watching a movie on the iPad, but seeing her bottom lip sucked in lets him know that she's listening to them talk about the deceased man.

Sam frowns, wishing he could fix her pain, even though that's one of the things in their lives that's impossible.

"You got anything?" Dean asks.

"Uh, yeah." Sam says. "There's this whole crazy side to Amazon lore that Professor Morrison didn't even mention."

"That's cause he doesn't believe in it, which is a real handicap when you're trying to deal with it." Dean says.

"Right. Um, apparently, there was this long, bloody war. The Amazon population was decimated, so they made a bargain with Harmonia to replenish their ranks and make them stronger." Sam explains.